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  • Prison Letters

    Nelson Mandela, Sahm Venter, Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela

    Paperback

    An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century.

  • They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate

    James Verini

    Hardback

    "They Will Have to Die Now is the story of what happened after most Americans stopped paying attention to Iraq…It will take its place among the very best war writing of the past two decades." —George Packer, author of Our Man and The Assassins’ Gate

  • Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History

    Steven J. Zipperstein

    Paperback

    Separating historical fact from fantasy, the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history, is retold.

  • The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

    Daniel Brook

    Hardback

    A technicolour history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white.

  • This America: The Case for the Nation

    Jill Lepore

    Hardback

    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection
    One of President Bill Clinton’s “Best Things I’ve Read This Year”

    From the acclaimed historian and New Yorker writer comes this urgent manifesto on the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.